However, nothing referenced an exact item back then. Thanks to today's datamining, though, we have a better sense of what it will be. (Keep in mind that this is still speculation, with no actual items datamined yet--just icons, quests, and items that augment ilvl.)

New icons for a legendary axe, fist, gun, dagger, mace, shield, staff and sword have been datamined in today's patch.

This looks like a big step for Blizzard and it's going to leave a lot of people divided. On one hand, the idea of a legendary based on merit rather than class sounds fantastic; on the other, guilds will have a lot of trouble deciding who gets the first one of these. Hopefully the droprates are much higher and the system isn't as linear--or luck based--like previous legendaries have been. We think it might end up like the AQ40 epic weapon quests, where any class could loot the armaments and get a weapon with raid materials, but it was still a rare occurrence. It also seems like Blizzard has thought up a solution to one-tier wonder characters who just want a legendary without commitment by having the quest series extend across patches: Incoming....

It's known that 5.1 will bring new additions to Pandaria, such as a fortress on the coast of Krasarang Wilds. The description for Incoming... says that the quest will continue in 5.1, when the naval fleet lands. A lot of people have wondered how Pandaria will tie into existing storylines on Azeroth, so this is a cool solution.

Comments

Comment by Kongolo

on 2012-06-13T00:22:39-05:00

noice! :o

Comment by aspectofthedork

on 2012-06-13T01:09:51-05:00

I just hope that this is just blizzard trolling the data miners. I can't imagine the drama that having a legendary for every class will cause, and as a raid leader I am dreading having to deal with it.

Comment by TheReal

on 2012-06-13T01:15:02-05:00

I hope Blizzard is trolling too. Deciding who gets the legendary weapon is easy when only one class can use it. At worst, 10-man guilds will have to decide between 2 players. Should Blizz go ahead with this, I foresee a lot of "/roll to see who gets the first legendary" or "tanks should have it first, then healers."

While Blizz is at it, I have too many buttons to push. As an arcane mage. Fix it or I'll QQ.

Comment by Hanterx

on 2012-06-13T01:18:12-05:00

A lot of Ledgendarys! Good Now we can ballance the game as it was in Valilla and TBC again <3

Comment by Riggs

on 2012-06-13T01:22:42-05:00

Flat out guild killer. what are they thinking? ok 1 then 2 now 3... How many orange FL sticks does your guild have? and how many more times will it be run this exp.

EVERYONE will want one at some point, "ok our 4th guildie is on quest 2, so whos next for part 1?" good god. someone tell me how a guild deals with this situation. and i mean someone from blizzard. (and with out that evil laugh)

Thought for sure it would be a tank item this time around. but I sure as hell didnt think they would open the flood gates like this.

Comment by faia

on 2012-06-13T01:27:24-05:00

so not really a legendary if it is a common raid loot that every raider will get, then it is just a intresting upgradeable loot, atleast it not force you to go BS like in TBC^^

Comment by Thestool

on 2012-06-13T01:34:14-05:00

multiple people better be able to get the stuff required for the legendaries or else if everyone can get a legendary it's going to cause so much raid drama.

Comment by Aveliana

on 2012-06-13T01:55:01-05:00

Its sounds good, but only mele procs? :/

Comment by kcra3l

on 2012-06-13T01:59:27-05:00

As already stated, it seems to be a spinoff of the AQ40 weapons mixed with a stupid quest like shadowmourne....BOOORING!

BUT, it is good that every class can get a legendary.also the fact that you need several patches is neat.

EDIT says:

sword proc is stupid.....

Comment by tobindax

on 2012-06-13T02:38:13-05:00

As a mage that has gone through the drama for being considered "OP" for having orange, I started disliking legendaries. Sometimes I think it's best to be undergeared and show numbers.

Comment by regma

on 2012-06-13T03:09:49-05:00

Not sure myself but since theres already weaps for others classes I would like to see how this'll work out.

Comment by yellowmana

on 2012-06-13T06:04:39-05:00

How is it "legendary" if every class in the raid group has it? Imo it should be epic with maybe a little better stats than others but not legendary

Comment by GorgothNZ

on 2012-06-13T06:36:27-05:00

I cant help but wonder if this isnt going to be more along the the line of a personal quest that everyone can do not one at a time but every single person gets items gets to do epically hard dungeon quests solo. lots of raiding and at the end if u arnt a fail u get Legendary loot. They would have to make any solo instances proper difficult in terms of mechanics not just u didn't get those adds down fast enough u get ganked. that would allow it to be out geared by players and not really a test of straight skill for those that do it later.

Comment by Pixsol

on 2012-06-13T06:56:18-05:00

As already stated, it seems to be a spinoff of the AQ40 weapons mixed with a stupid quest like shadowmourne....BOOORING!

BUT, it is good that every class can get a legendary.also the fact that you need several patches is neat.

EDIT says:

sword proc is stupid.....

This guy has a point, everyone saying this will be drama. The thing is you have 1 patch to collect one part meaning the process will probably be shorter per patch. Meaning in patch 5.0 you can collect multiple items from the 5.0 raids so more then one raider can have all the 5.0 items by the start of 5.1 and then you can do it again.

So the drama might not be all that bad. If this holds true it will mean the legendaries will probably be a lot more common.

Comment by Dextar

on 2012-06-13T07:09:00-05:00

As a rogue who got legendary weapons in DS, I say BLEH! No way in hell will my guild let me touch this since "I had my turn". so I hope the 10 things you have to collect aren't hard to obtain.

Comment by Kaitain

on 2012-06-13T07:26:19-05:00

I think they should just bite the bullet and remove legendaries from the game. At one extreme very few people have them and it's frustrating for everyone else (Vanilla), at the other extreme they are the most common weapons on the server (Cataclysm) and they lose all prestige, and worse, unbalance the game. In the middle it's bad both ways.

Sad to say, but as a concept it's more bad than good. Scrap it.

Comment by toostoond

on 2012-06-13T07:29:10-05:00

i dont like it if that class would get a legendary it would be his time to shine but whit every one getting legendary guilds will close out players and i know this for fact cuz lots of guilds do this already cuz of the achievement system now it will only get worse guild will make a 10 man and they will never let any one join they will probably keep going whit the same group until every one of them got legendary and let all other guildy's just there to wait ( one of the reasons i did stop playing wow in 1st place and i was thinking of coming back in mop but it seems its only gonna get worse ) the elite in the guilds get all ways a unfair heads up while the other 'have to wait i never did like this in wow but you have to have a guild or ells you don't raid at all you barley see any pugs any more, i just gonna hope they will do something smart whit this or ells they gonna have lots of people pissed off

Comment by Karlgunnar

on 2012-06-13T08:06:05-05:00

Does this work on all weapons?

Comment by DarthKeller

on 2012-06-13T08:23:33-05:00

"Only works on creatures level 90 and below" (on the sword one)

Great, so we can't use it in a raid environment. WTG Blizz.

Comment by zandy1990

on 2012-06-13T08:35:17-05:00

I like this idea of every class being able to get a legendary, but I'm sure it would probably cause some drama in guilds. Some may want the tanks or healers to get it, and leave the dps last since we're "unimportant" (at least that's how my old guild leader would have put it *sigh* Thank goodness he's gone). But I digress lol. Hopefully my guild would do a /roll and see who'll be the lucky one to get it.